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Coping With the Frustrating Hypocrisy of Free Speech on College Campuses

The right of free speech, as outlined in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, is always prevalent in America, except right now on college campuses. …

May 29, 2024

Geriatric Politics and The Reason it Needs to End

Noah Hernandez, University of Texas at San Antonio

The problem with career politicians, unlimited terms, and our great-grandparents running the country.…

February 1, 2024

Green Day Today: ‘American Idiot’ 2024

Julia Ray, Northern Arizona University

How is Green Day's magnum opus still relevant 20 years later?…

January 27, 2024

The Evolving Role of Celebrities In American Politics

Karla D. Galvan, The University of Texas at San Antonio

From success stories to failures, celebrities have left their mark in the world of politics.…

January 16, 2024

How a News-Literacy Class Will Make You a Smarter News Consumer

4 Tips from a News-Literacy Class That Will Make You a Smarter Consumer

Jasmin Suknanan, Stony Brook University

If you only read the title of this article, please don't share it.…

April 3, 2017

Coming to Terms with Your White Privilege

Payton Ramey, University of Central Florida

If you think admitting your privilege is self-effacing, then you're in for a pleasant surprise.…

April 3, 2017

The Winners and Losers of Trump’s Proposed Budget

Miguel Robles, University of Colorado Denver

With sweeping cuts to the arts, education and sciences, and increased defense and fossil-fuel funding, Trump appears to be on the warpath.…

April 2, 2017

How Not to Be Like Tim Allen

Phillip Bugajski, Loyola University Chicago

Allen's inflammatory remarks on 'Jimmy Kimmel' prove that he still is a tool man.…

April 1, 2017

The Silver Lining of Global Warming

Galen Patterson, California State University, Fullerton

Climate change might be just what the world needs.…

March 31, 2017

Ladies, According to an Australian Senator, You Like Being Verbally Harassed

Ladies, According to This Australian Senator, You Enjoy Being Verbally Harassed

Emma Taubenfeld, Pace University

Catcalling, like other, more serious versions of misogyny, is a habit that men need to change, not women.…

March 30, 2017

Security Theater Under President Trump

Amna Ijaz, Collin College

Though Trump claims the news media is his enemy, much of his political platform would be nonexistent without their fearmongering.…

March 28, 2017

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Is an International Comfort

Why the World Is Looking to German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Devin Ross, Middle Tennessee State University

In an historically ironic role reversal, Germany now appears to be the one stable country in a sea of demagogues.…

March 27, 2017

The Fine Arts vs. President Trump

Alicia Drier, Roosevelt University

What Trump’s promise to decrease funding for the National Endowment for the Arts means for the United States.…

March 24, 2017

Donald Trump: Making America Vain Again

Rachael Seamands, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

America has always been proud, but its presidents have usually been humble. What will change under a narcissistic commander in chief?…

March 23, 2017

The Ins and Outs of the American Health Care Act

Everything You Need to Know About the American Health Care Act

Phillip Bugajski, Loyola University Chicago

The Republicans' newly proposed plan promises increased choice and lower prices, but theorists predict otherwise.…

March 23, 2017

Land of the Free, Home of the Incarcerated

Mary Kiser, Trident Technical College

One in every four prisoners on the planet is in an American jail. Why?…

March 23, 2017

What Political Correctness Means to Donald Trump

Timothy K. DesJarlais, University of Arizona

His promise to tell things the way they are has backfired so badly that even his supporters urge critics not to interpret him literally.…

March 22, 2017

Banned Refugees in Trump-Voting Lancaster, PA

Why Does a Trump-Voting County Take in the Country’s Most Refugees?

Liam Chan Hodges, Franklin and Marshall College

The people of Lancaster, PA, could teach Americans a thing or two about balancing politics and humanity.…

March 19, 2017

Following the Public-School Model with Free College

Sooner or Later, College in America Will Be Free

Timothy K. DesJarlais, University of Arizona

With demand for a more highly educated workforce increasing, perhaps free college isn’t as radical as opponents argue.…

March 15, 2017

What Is Obamacare, and Why Do So Many Old White Men Want It Repealed?

Amna Ijaz, Collin College

Since you were probably a teenager when it debuted, here’s everything you need to know about the ACA and its Republican-proposed replacement.…

March 15, 2017

As Anti-Semitic Fervor Rises in America, a Look Into Its History Reveals Why

Jonathan Kim, University of Texas at Dallas

Based almost entirely in what would today be called alternative facts, anti-Jewish sentiment is an age-old response to the misleading worldview caused by us-them binaries. …

March 15, 2017